This new dataset - the GBNVPD - includes ECN vegetation monitoring plot data alongside on-going and historic activities such as Countryside Survey, the National Plant Monitoring Scheme, the National Vegetation Classification and many others. #data #plants #vegetation #ecology

The long-term monitoring addressed in this review is wide-ranging and includes that undertaken by the UK Environmental Change Network. Please take some time to share your views. The closing date is 9am (UK time) on 29th September.

Our Management Group met today, part of a quarterly meeting cycle. The discussion covered many aspects of #environmental #monitoring. These are an invaluable - almost unique - opportunity for UK public bodies involved in monitoring to share information & ideas, and to explore working together.

This Friday’s lunchtime #webinar will feature Rodrigo Olave from @afbini.gov.uk talking about 36 years of research at Loughgall; the #agroforesty #LTE in #NorthernIreland. Register: bit.ly/ECTWebinarsE... #Silvopasture #AgromixProject #Agforward_EU 🌏

⌛Hurry! ⌛The call for session proposals for the National Environmental Monitoring Conference 2025 (15 December, Edinburgh) will close on 📆 12 September. Find out more from the @britishecologicalsociety.org website: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/nati... #NEMC2025

We're using bioacoustic sensors to monitor birds and bats at our long-term monitoring and research site in the Cairngorms, operated by @ukceh.bsky.social: ecn.ac.uk/news/bioacou... 🦅🦇🎤 #monitoring #research #environment #species #LTER

📆 This 1 hr webinar with speakers from @ukceh.bsky.social could be of interest: Habitat monitoring using drone technology: are we nearly there yet? 24 September, 09:00 UTC / 10:00 UK time. www.mambo-project.eu/events/habit... #monitoring #observation #EO #drones #environment

We would like to say a big THANK YOU to all the volunteers who contributed to the Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey this year!!! 🎉 👏 🦋 The survey window closed today, so be sure to enter all of your data to the UKBMS website by the end of October. @bbs-birds.bsky.social

Urban forests play a vital role in helping reduce the impacts of extreme weather, from cooling to flood mitigation. But urban forests require climate-conscious planning & management to ensure they continue to deliver multiple benefits for generations to come. 🔎 Explore guidance: ow.ly/yjqP50WMENv

Back from holiday? Catch up on recent UKCEH news with our August newsletter! 🏞️ Latest UK Land Cover Map 🌳 The role of tree disease on woodland soil carbon loss 🪰 Biodiversity improvements masked by poor river scores 🌼 10 years of national plant monitoring and more! 🔗 🧪 buff.ly/BkNZqzN

Want to know more about an insect you’ve found? Identify an insect with our experts 🦋 Just fill in the form and we'll contact you with more information about your find 🔽 🔗 buff.ly/OxUUwmI #AskAnEntomologist #Entomology #Insects #AskAnExpert #InsectIdentification

Huge congratulations to Dr Kelly Jowett for bagging the @royentsoc.bsky.social Alfred Wallace Award for her PhD thesis on carabid beetles in farm landscapes 🪲🎉🍾👏 Interested in doing a PhD at Rothamsted? Check out current opportunities here 👇 www.rothamsted.ac.uk/studentships

Applications for the 2026 New Phytologist #TansleyMedal for excellence in #PlantScience are now open! It's a global competition for early career researchers with 3-5 years' experience post-PhD. Deadline: 1 November 2025. 👉 newphytologist.org/tansleymedal #ESA2025

The latest hydrological summary for the UK has been published 📊💧🌊 An in-depth look at rainfall, river flows, soil moisture, groundwater levels and reservoir stocks across the country last month: mailchi.mp/ceh/july-202... 🧪 @bgs.ac.uk @cosmosuk.bsky.social

NEW! The latest UKCEH Land Cover Map, describing the UK land surface in 2024, is now available 🏞️ 🌳 See what broad habitats—ranging from broadleaved woodland and arable land to freshwater and urban areas— there are and where in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. #LandCover #LCM 🧵🧪 1/

Good news: Microcarb has successfully launched! 👏 Europe’s first carbon-monitoring satellite is now in orbit, marking a major step in tracking CO₂ emissions from space. Find out more about our role in the mission & how it will lay the foundation for the Copernicus CO2M constellation: bit.ly/4oeyKxa

The National Environmental Monitoring Conference returns for its second year. NEMC 2025 will focus on 'From insight to impact: building the UK #environmental #monitoring community'. Find out more: ukeof.org.uk/news/nemc-2025 @britishecologicalsociety.org @ukceh.bsky.social

Long-term monitoring data was essential for this study of changes to phytoplankton.

📣 Exciting opportunity to work on the Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure as a Senior Research Associate. Lead the Early Adopters Programme & shape FDRI catchment monitoring. Role based at University of Bristol, working closely the FDRI delivery team. Apply here: tinyurl.com/4ae6vkcb 🧪

🌼 Got 10 mins to spend near flowers? Why not contribute to the UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme with a Flower-Insect Timed (FIT) Count! Watch flowers + insects in warm, dry weather (Apr–Sept). Every FIT Count helps science. Find out more: ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts #CitizenScience #BeesNeeds

🧪 A UKCEH Countryside Survey study provides the first evidence of recovering national soil organic carbon in British croplands, after decades of decline. See a blog post by the British Society of Soil Science: tinyurl.com/y86w5nme Full paper: bsssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌿 What makes green & blue spaces truly valuable? Our researchers have identified 72 indicators to assess the quality, not just the quantity, of green & blue spaces in Scotland. Defining what makes these spaces effective, functional & sustainable. More: ow.ly/mGNX50WogAx

📢The Global Soil Biodiversity Conference 2026 abstract submission deadline is in 5 DAYS 🐛🐜🕷️🦠🪱 Abstracts are due July 15th 23:59 PDT ‼️ Submit an abstract 👇 globalsoilbiodiversity2026.org/abstract/

1/ New blog! Discover how Passive Acoustic Monitoring can help in Nightjar monitoring ➡️ www.bto.org/our-work... #Orntihology #bioacoustics

📢 Job alert! UKCEH are looking for a Senior Freshwater Ecologist to join their Aquatic Ecosystems Group, based at their Edinburgh site! 💦🧪 @ukceh.bsky.social #UKCEH_AquaEco share.google/P4sSI2ulbXL9...

There is a new #LongTermExperiment at @rothamsted.bsky.social: the Large Scale Rotation Experiment. It will identify what works in #RegenerativeFarming. Learn about it here: bit.ly/3TyxVRw @rothamsted-lte.bsky.social 🌎

We're sharing news and insights about invasive non-native species this week. Listen out for our next podcast episode tomorrow which features Prof Helen Roy @ukladybirds.bsky.social And Helen is on a webinar tomorrow discussing future non-native species threats 🔗 tinyurl.com/3az9s5ru 🧪 #INNSWeek

(1/) It’s almost mid-May, so please try and fit in your ‘Early’ visit to your Breeding Bird Survey square or Waterways Breeding Bird Survey stretch by 15 May if possible. @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social #Ornithology #CitizenScience

Monitoring of butterflies helps direct the conservation undertaken to support them. The WCBS Survey highlighted declines in a number of species last year including Red Admiral . Can you help to continue this work, we are looking for recorders in south & west Norfolk. buff.ly/ZM4x6l4

Check out our 'Environmental Observation' @wakelet.bsky.social feed to see the resources and news we've selected from across the internet: wakelet.com/wake/13ZZd4N... #Environment #Observation #Monitoring #Modelling #Data #DNA #NaturalCapital #EarthObservation #CitizenScience

Where did all the butterflies go? 🚨🦋 Newly released data has revealed that 2024 was one of the worst years on record for butterflies in the UK, and more than half of butterfly species are now in long-term decline. We are in a #ButterflyEmergency.

(1/) It’s now two weeks to go until the 2025 BBS and WBBS season starts on 1 April. Check the blue ‘Show average visit dates’ box on BBS online to find out when the optimum time to do your ‘Early’ and ‘Late’ visits to your square or stretch. Consistency is important!

The video recordings of all the talks given at our well-attended 2025 conference 'Climate change: evidence and impacts on UK environments and resources' are now ready. Find the link on the conference web page: ukeof.org.uk/conference/c... #ukeof2025 #ClimateChange #Environment

With spider activity increasing, we're looking at spider ID resources, starting today at the beginner's end of the spectrum with our 17 Factsheets on common and conspicuous species - freely available to read online or print from www.britishspiders.org.uk/factsheets. #spiders #arachnids #arachnology

📚🌍What’s your favourite book about the environment? For #WorldBookDay we asked UKCEH colleagues to share a selfie with their own picks! From climate science to nature writing, see some of their choices 📖💚 What’s on your reading list? #ScienceReads #GoodReads

Have you spotted blossoming blackthorn yet this year? 🌸 Look out for its creamy five-petalled flowers that appear before the leaves 🔎 It's one of our earliest flowering trees & provides a vital source of food for bees in spring 🐝 Record what you see 👉 buff.ly/3PTQ6ze

There is still time to book on our annual conference, taking place online next Saturday morning (8th March)! Fill in this form to be sent a Zoom link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

(1/) Join us for our FREE ‘Demystifying the Breeding Bird Survey’ face to face session at Kensington Gardens Royal Park in London on Sunday 6 April: www.bto.org/community/ev... @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social #UKbirding #CitizenScience

1/3 Thanks to everyone who attended our conference on 'Climate change: evidence and impacts on UK environments and resources' yesterday. If you were there, we hope you found it interesting. #ukeof2025 #climatechange #environment #research #monitoring

1/ 🔊 We need your help to survey Heathland Birds! 🐦 For the first time in two decades we’re asking birders to survey for key species, including Woodlark, Dartford Warbler and Nightjar. Visit our website to sign up. ➡️ www.bto.org/heathland-birds-survey #Ornithology #UKBirding

Chris Foster discusses the Ground Beetle Recording Scheme's work with iRecord. (from 2023 Why iRecord? Virtual Symposium)

Fancy dipping your toes in the world of botany? Our friends at BSBI NI are hosting a variety of plant ID training days across NI aimed at people new to plants and those looking to develop their skills further. bsbi.org/botanical-sk... There’s one this Saturday! @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Interested in how climate change is affecting the UK’s natural environment, and how evidence is gathered? Join our free online conference on 13 February. The draft programme is online: ukeof.org.uk/conference/c... #ukeof2025

Don’t miss our free conference on evidence and impacts of climate change on UK environments and resources with speakers including @edhawkins.org. Places are filling fast! 13th February, online. Details: ukeof.org.uk/conference/c... #ukeof2025 #climatechange #environment

🚨 Applications have reopened for our volunteer Bird Obs Asst. Warden roles. 🌱 Spring: 3 Mar to 3 Jun 🍁 Autumn: 2 Aug to 24 Oct 🪶 Full season: 3 Mar to 24 Oct Accommodation & all meals provided free. Full season or shorter stints considered with a minimum commitment of at least two months expected.

📣 Applications OPEN for our Hydro-JULES summer internship! 5 interns wanted for a 6-week programme in hydrology, climate, and environmental science. Four projects in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, and one with @britgeosurvey.bsky.social in Keyworth. Apply by 21 Feb: hydro-jules.org/hydro-jules-...

We've joined the new INTERACT Non-Profit Association, continuing our long involvement in this #arctic & #alpine #research network. This will mean further exciting opportunities for transnational access and research in the #Cairngorms. Read more: ecn.ac.uk/new/cairngor...

This conference looks very interesting. Previous UKEOF conferences have been very popular, so it's probably a good idea to book early...

It was good to catch up with our brilliant site managers at a meeting today. They do a brilliant job, visiting their sites regularly to collect data and samples, and to maintain equipment. They do this all year round, whatever the weather and ECN wouldn't happen without them. Thank you! 👏

Our December newsletter is out now, with top stories: 🌍 Landmark IPBES #NexusAssessment ✅ Preventing Yellow-legged (Asian) hornet establishment 💧 Slowing the flow with natural flood management 🐞 Citizen science crucial in invasive species detection Read here: mailings.ceh.ac.uk/dec2024-ukce...